> They’re moaning about the fee because it will work If by "work" you mean "the same company employs the same person just in an office in a different country"?

> They’re moaning about the fee because it will work If by "work" you mean "the same company employs the same person just in an office in a different country"? You do you, if so. > Visas are supposed to be issued to the best of the best If you want that. But then don't be surprised when such people look at you and say "nah". > But we both know how easy that is to abuse. No, we don't "both" know. I never tried to [ab]use it. Because I (like several of my friends who said "no" to US companies asking them to move to the US) never cared about moving to the US in the first place. > The employers who hire cheap foreign labor to replace Americans at ordinary jobs won’t pay that fee; it’ll be cheaper to pay an American $120k than to pay an Indian $50k with the extra $100k application fee. That solves that problem in one easy stroke. $100k is just for H-1B, which is specifically work, and was already capped in number. The, e.g. H-2A visa has a fee of apparently $460 (not thousand, just four sixty). That's the one for "temporary agricultural work", which is very much not "the best of the best".